Too much description, too many adjectives and adverbs, can slow up your narrative and cause your readers to lose interest.

太多的描述、太多的形容词和副词会使你的叙述变得慢起来，导致读者失去兴趣。

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Song Description: This song was a story, the protagonist for their own cause to leave their homes.

歌曲简介：这首歌写了一个小故事，故事中的主角为了自己的事业离乡别井。

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If that's not a novelist's description of what a lost cause is I've never read one.

这就是一个小说家所描述的失败的代价,我从未读到过更贴切的说法了

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